An object-oriented methodology to detect oil spills

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 27, Issue 23, 2006, Pages 5235-5251

  Karathanassi, V ^a   Topouzelis, K ^a   Pavlakis, P ^b   Rokos, D ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Greek National Centre of Marine Research   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUZZY SYSTEMS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; RADAR IMAGING; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

FUZZY CLASSIFICATION METHOD; HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGE; OIL SPILL DETECTION;

OIL SPILLS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DETECTION METHOD; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; OIL SPILL; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 34250832006     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160600693575     Document Type: Article

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